Current opioid misuse remained unchanged among high schoolers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, high school students’ current substance use — defined as use in the past 30 days — decreased during the pandemic between 2019 and 2021 for alcohol, marijuana and binge drinking, according to Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance…
Top U.S. Department of Education (USDE) officials are slamming a Republican spending proposal spearheaded by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would raise the federal debt ceiling but impose deep budget cuts on the agency. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona publicly criticized the GOP debt ceiling plan stating that McCarthy is showing…
The U.S. Department of Education (USDE) has opened applications for a $224 million grant program aimed at improving postsecondary readiness for students with disabilities. The Pathways to Partnerships Innovative Model Demonstration Project will provide between 22 and 32 awards worth an average of $7 million each in upfront funding to…
During a speech on January 25th with the theme "Raise the Bar," U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, urged educators to set higher expectations for students in reading and math achievement. His speech at the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) also called on them to provide greater opportunities for students to…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called on schools to help prevent and reduce the negative impact of violence and other trauma on teens, as it released a report finding dramatic increases in mental health challenges for teenage girls. The report found nearly 3 in 5 teen girls felt persistently sad…
According to the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), a number of differences exist between students with significant cognitive disabilities who have cortical visual impairment (CVI) and those who have other types of visual impairment. Learn more in NCDB/ATLAS Brief #2, co-produced by the National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) and…
In the February 8th State of the Union Address, President Biden called for increasing public school teachers’ pay, restoring the full child tax credit, establishing universal preschool, and improving access to mental health care in schools. Biden also asked Congress “to stop Big Tech from collecting personal data on our…
The latest request to increase funding for K-12 received its answer in late December, when Congress passed appropriations for fiscal year 2023. Here are four charts to understand how Congress responded to the administration’s asks to bump K-12 funding in various areas. For more info, click here.
Congress has approved significant fiscal year 2023 increases for Title I programs in high-poverty schools, special education and community schools, with the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) pre-K-12 portion of $45 billion equaling a 5.6% increase over last year’s spending allocation. The legislation, signed by President Joe Biden on Dec.…
The Interagency Task Force on Sexual Violence in Education (Task Force), created by the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA 2022 Reauthorization), presented its first report to Congress today. As required by the VAWA 2022 Reauthorization, the report focuses on recruiting, retaining, and training the Department of…
